Photos of the day 09/25

( Updated: 09/25/2013 )

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Four lion cubs are photographed at Szorako Zoo in Gyongyos, northeast of Budapest, Hungary. The four still unnamed cubs were born on Aug. 29. Peter Komka/MTI/AP

Students gather before to pray for community and national leaders during 'Meet Me at the Pole,' an annual nation-wide day of student prayer before school, at the Conroe Ninth Grade Campus in Conroe, Texas. Jason Fochtman/The Courier/AP

Pakistani girls bake bread using a fire, near their makeshift tents in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Slums which are built on illegal lands have neither running water or sewage disposal. Muhammed Muheisen/AP

An Indian student dressed as ten-headed demon King Ravana shouts slogans as a group of students from the Lala Lajpatrai college protest against sexual violence faced by women in Mumbai, India. Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Students shout slogans as they march through the city center of Athens during a protest against far-right Golden Dawn party, Athens. The government has vowed to crack down on the group it has described as a neo-Nazi organization. Kostas Tsironis/AP

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is seen on a television screen in the Senate Press Gallery during the tenth hour of his speech on the Senate floor in Washington. Cruz began a lengthy speech urging his colleagues to oppose moving ahead on a bill he supports. The measure would prevent a government shutdown and defund Obamacare. Evan Vucci/AP

Yachts are showing at the 24th edition of the Monaco Yacht Show .The Monaco Yacht Show is the only boat show devoted exclusively to luxury yachting. Lionel Cironneau/AP

Russian journalist Alexander Podrabinek holds a portrait of jailed Pussy Riot punk group member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, with shadows of reporters in front, during a protest outside of the Federal Prison Administration headquarter in Moscow. Ivan Sekretarev/AP

Catholic nuns pray near the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Gunshots rang out from the upscale mall Wednesday morning, the day after the president declared an end to a four-day siege by Islamic militants. Jerome Delay/AP

Britain's Bradley Wiggins rides past the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore, on his way to clinching the silver medal in the men's individual time trial event, at the road cycling world championships, in Florence, Italy. Fabrizio Giovannozzi/AP

Vehicles wait to enter the British territory of Gibraltar at its border with Spain. A team of European Union inspectors was in Gibraltar on Wednesday to investigate a border dispute that has strained relations between Britain and Spain. Jon Nazca/Reuters

Flight attendants pose for photographers with copies of the new James Bond novel 'Solo' during a launch photocall outside the Dorchester Hotel in London. Matt Dunham/AP

Sukhoi Su-27 jet fighters release flares as they perform during the 'Russia Arms Expo 2013' 9th international exhibition of arms, military equipment and ammunition, in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, Russia. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend Sukkot prayers holding a palm frond, bound with two other branches, and the fruit of an etrog tree, at the Belz yeshiva during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in Jerusalem. Bernat Armangue/AP

A man holds Lucky, a stray puppy he rescued, during a protest against stray dog euthanasia, outside the parliament in Bucharest, Romania.The bill allowing stray dogs to be euthanized is legal, following a decision by Romania's constitutional court that prompted hundreds of dog lovers to block a main road outside Parliament in protest. Vadim Ghirda/AP

A man stands in the middle of Grand Central Terminal as he speaks on a cell phone, as passengers face limited train service on the New Haven Line between Stamford Station and Grand Central Terminal due to a Con Edison power problem in New York. Zoran Milich/Reuters

The family of a Free Syrian Army fighter pose for a photograph in front of their home in Habit village, the Syrian central province of Hama. AP

An artist prepares an idol at a workshop ahead of Durga Puja festival in New Delhi, India. The five-day Durga Puja festival that commemorates the slaying of a demon king by goddess Durga to mark the triumph of good over evil, begins Oct. 10. Tsering Topgyal/AP

An Afghan female police officer holds up a wooden mock gun during a training session at the Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, admitted that there were problems involving women in the police force but said the government plans to double the number of female officers from 2,200 to more than 4,000 in time for next April's presidential and provincial elections. Ahmad Jamshid/AP

Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder Starling Marte (l.), center fielder Andrew McCutchen (c.) and right fielder Marlon Byrd (r.) celebrate after beating the Chicago Cubs 8-2 during their MLB National League baseball game in Chicago. Jeff Haynes/Reuters

Residents of the Yoff neighborhood collect water for drinking and washing from shallow wells hand dug along the beachfront, as the neighborhood continues to suffer from severe water outages. The office of Senegal President Macky Sall has announced he will cut short his stay at the UN General Assembly to return and address an interruption in water services that has affected large areas of the capital, Dakar, for nearly two weeks. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Palestinian fishermen prepare their nets before using them to catch fish in the Mediterranean Sea water as the sun sets in Gaza City. Adel Hana/AP

After widespread protests, a six-month state of emergency started in October. Now, much depends on the next move of leaders who have long used their track record of economic development to paper over widespread human rights abuses and political repression.

ByJames Jeffrey, ContributorDecember 9, 2016

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For nearly a year, mass protests surged across Ethiopia – and stormed across the world’s headlines – as a movement that began with farmers fighting land grabs outside the country’s capital mushroomed into the country’s most sustained and widespread period of dissent and protests since its ruling party came to power more than two decades ago.